US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 2026.
The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.
To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.
Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.
FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.
In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.
Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.
The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.
The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 2026.
After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.
Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.
Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.
His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues.
Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.
The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.
Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 3, 2026.
Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.
Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 3, 2026.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.
Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.
The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 3, 2026.
어쩌구 저쩌구지난 3r의 4개의 게임을 보자파워캐릭터 미션과 지구력캐 미션이 각 2개씩 나왔다파워캐 미션 장승 버티기, 공 던지기지구력캐 미션 허들, 오래 매달리기그래야. 지난 20일, 넷플릭스 피지컬 아시아 몽골 팀 에이전시 대표 dulguun enkhtsogt 돌군 엥흐초그트는 자신의 소셜 계정에 장문의 글을 올리고 편파 의혹에 대한 입장을 밝혔다. 159 피지컬100 여러번 해봤음 + 한국인들 게임지능 높음으로 이긴 듯 11. 피지컬아시아 넷플릭스예능 한국우승 아시아대항전 논란정리 주작논란 글로벌반응 넷플릭스 첫 아시아 국가 대항전 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’가 뜨거운 관심 속에서 시즌을 마무리했습니다.
제작진들 진짜 ㅈㄴ 멍청한 듯 피지컬 아시아 갤러리.. Comtitle81942209아시아 최강자들의 피지컬 맞대결.. Osen김나연 기자 피지컬 아시아의 한국팀 우승을 두고 일각에서 편파나 승부조작 의혹을 제기하고 있는 가운데, 몽골 팀 관계자가 이를 반박하고 과열된 분위기를 자중시키기 위해 나섰다..불법 유출 문제와 참가국 구성 논의, 그리고 제, 단하나 공성퀘는 다른팀이 지켜보기가 불가능한 퀘스트다. 레딧 주작 의심에 대한 글이랑 반응 피지컬 아시아 갤러리. 호주, 필리핀, 태국, 대한민국, 몽골, 일본, 인도네시아. Com › board › view한국 주작논란 딱 한문장으로 정리함 피지컬 아시아 갤러리. Com › board › view한국 주작논란 딱 한문장으로 정리함 피지컬 아시아 갤러리, 지난 10월 28일 공개된 넷플릭스 서바이벌 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’가 글로벌 top 10 비영어 tv쇼 부문 3위를 차지하며 전 세계적 흥행 돌풍을 일으, Days ago 피지컬 아시아가 공개되자마자 시청 열기가 커졌지만, 동시에 논란도 함께 커졌습니다.
| 일본몽골한테 발리고 떨어짐, 돌기둥 아니였어도 떨어짐, 와중에 돌기둥이 조작되었다 이러는데 조작돼서 한국이 이득보는게 뭐임. | 완전 울나라가 공공의 적이 된 느낌인데아니 무슨 예능에 이리 진지할 일인가 딱히 조작 있었던 것 같지도 않고 그리고 무엇보다 저정도 논란이 생길만큼 인기있는 프로도 아니었음. | Sbs연예뉴스 김지혜 기자 넷플릭스 예능 피지컬 아시아가 오는 10월 28일 공개된다. |
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| 8개의 국기 단 하나의 목표 우승《피지컬 아시아》참가국 공개. | 공성추180kg 여자 2명이 어케 들었냐. | 01 022416 삭제 피갤러5222. |
| 치열하게 안살면 다 죽었다고 맨날 침략만 당하던 나라와 침략하던 나라랑 같아. | 어쩌구 저쩌구지난 3r의 4개의 게임을 보자파워캐릭터 미션과 지구력캐 미션이 각 2개씩 나왔다파워캐 미션 장승 버티기, 공 던지기지구력캐 미션 허들, 오래 매달리기그래야. | 스포티비뉴스강효진 기자 피지컬 아시아에 출연한 유튜버 아모띠가 조작 의혹에 억울함을 드러냈다. |
| 2025년 11월 18일, 넷플릭스가 피지컬 아시아 마지막 세 편을 공개하면서 시즌이 끝났다. | 치열하게 안살면 다 죽었다고 맨날 침략만 당하던 나라와 침략하던 나라랑 같아. | 피지컬아시아 넷플릭스예능 한국우승 아시아대항전 논란정리 주작논란 글로벌반응 넷플릭스 첫 아시아 국가 대항전 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’가 뜨거운 관심 속에서 시즌을 마무리했습니다. |
Osen김나연 기자 피지컬 아시아의 한국팀 우승을 두고 일각에서 편파나 승부조작 의혹을 제기하고 있는 가운데, 몽골 팀 관계자가 이를 반박하고 과열된 분위기를 자중시키기 위해 나섰다. 매미가 도망만가고 일본이 음흉하고 이런거는 이차적인 문제고 피지컬 아시아가 ㅈ같은 가장 일차적인 문제는 제작진의 게임 운영이 너무 허술하고 의도가 보인다는 거임 제작진의 허술한 게임 진행 1. 치열하게 안살면 다 죽었다고 맨날 침략만 당하던 나라와 침략하던 나라랑 같아.
2번째 경기똑같이 정해민이 이기고 있음 근데 read more.. 반대로 정해민의 요구가 받아들여져서 경기.. 그러나 결승전은 온라인에서 거센 반발을 불러일으켰습니다..
Kr › article › view‘피지컬아시아’ 몇부작. 교대하는 시간 동안 얼마나 손해 보는지 모르는 상황에서 짧은거리 read more, 그러나 결승전은 온라인에서 거센 반발을 불러일으켰습니다.
동남아 애들이 조작이라고 말하는 것들 4가지임. 반대로 정해민의 요구가 받아들여져서 경기. 스포츠조선 이우주 기자 피지컬아시아 아모띠가 해외 선수들도 의심한 조작 의혹에 억울해했다. Kr › article › view‘피지컬아시아’ 몇부작. 지난 10월 28일 공개된 넷플릭스 서바이벌 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’가 글로벌 top 10 비영어 tv쇼 부문 3위를 차지하며 전 세계적 흥행 돌풍을 일으. 마지막에 일본이 통과못한 성문닫기의 조작 의심 댓글들이 많이 보임.
끝내 잡지 못한 사랑 txt 한국 우승 비하인드부터 조작 논란, 출연자 뒷이야기까지 1만자 풀 스토리안녕하세요, 넷플릭스 마니아 여러분. 포텐 ㅅㅍ해외에서 호평받고 있는 피지컬 아시아 레딧 반응. 팀 코리아 참가자들 – 넷플릭스 피지컬 아시아에 출전한 한국 팀 6인은 김동현, 윤성빈, 김민재, 아모띠. 해외에서 논란중인 한국팀 조작 증거를 분석해 봤습니다 넷플릭스 피지컬아시아의 한 장면입니다 it’s a scene from physical asia on netflix. 피지컬아시아 아모띠가 해외 선수들도 의심한 조작 의혹에 억울해했다. 꽃니밍 자위
나미 sex 지난 19일 오카미 유신은 자신의 계정을 통해 앞서 리포스트한 내용 중 일부를 명확히 하고 싶다. 21일 넷플릭스 코리아 공식 유튜브 채널에서는. 21일 넷플릭스 코리아 공식 유튜브 채널에서는. 피지컬아시아 넷플릭스예능 한국우승 아시아대항전 논란정리 주작논란 글로벌반응 넷플릭스 첫 아시아 국가 대항전 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’가 뜨거운 관심 속에서 시즌을 마무리했습니다. 피지컬 아시아의 한국팀 우승을 두고 일각에서 편파나 승부조작 의혹을 제기하고 있는 가운데, 몽골 팀 관계자가 이를 반박하고 과열된 분위기를. 김희선 누드
김유연 이대 디시 굳이 조작같은걸 해서 한국팀을 우승시킬 이유가 없다 굳이 따지자면 몽골 우승이 더 엔터테인먼트적으로 이득이다 2. 지형지물의 정보를 모르는 상태에서 read more. 공성추180kg 여자 2명이 어케 들었냐. 피지컬100 시리즈의 스핀오프로, 한국일본몽골 등 아시아 8개국 최강자들이 국기를 걸고. 오늘은 프로그램을 둘러싼 핵심 이슈를 깔끔하게 정리해 드립니다. 김하 콩 헤어진 이유
나는 찬미 몸매 20 143937 삭제 피갤러4112. 동남아 애들이 조작이라고 말하는 것들 4가지임. 넷플릭스 오리지널 서바이벌 예능 프로그램 피지컬 아시아 의 퀘스트 및 진행 결과에 대한 문서이다. 모든퀘는 한팀이 진행시 다른팀이 지켜볼수 있는 반면. 이 회장은 26일 오후 서울 강서구 서울김포항공 read more.
김유연 허벅지 피지컬 아시아 노잼이 팩트란 것과 별개로 이 글은 까려고 마음먹고 억지를 끼워맞춘 수준의 글임. 피지컬 아시아는 조작이 존재할 수 없는 구조. 반대로 정해민의 요구가 받아들여져서 경기. 스포츠조선 이우주 기자 피지컬아시아 아모띠가 해외 선수들도 의심한 조작 의혹에 억울해했다. 그리고 최종 우승국은 바로 대한민국 이었죠.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 2026.
This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth.
This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.
Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.
Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.
The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”
Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.
Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 3, 2026.
Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.
In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 2026.
In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.
Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.
부산항만공사bpa사장 송상근가 한uae 피지컬 ai 기반 항만물류 공동 프로젝트의 성공적인 추진을 위해 본격적인 행보에 나섰다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.